Playing-cards.



W. T. EDDINS.

' Patented July 20, 1909.

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PLAYING CARDS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.17, 190a.

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WILLIAM TERRELL EDDINS, OF EDENFIELD, FLORIDA.

PLAYING-CARD S.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 20, 1909.

Application filed November 17, 1908. .Serial No. M33346.

With the above and other objects in view,

the invention consists of a deck of novel cards such as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view showing certain cards of the deck; and Fig. 2 is a view showing the remaining cards.

The deck consists of 100 cards numbered consecutively from 1 to 100, as indicated at a, and having values corresponding to such The cards Z) numbered from 1 to 73, with the exception of one card 0, numbered 25, each bear the picture of a French soldier, as indicated at cl, and the title or legend French soldier, as indicated at c in Fig. 2. The card numbered 25, also shown in Fig. 2, contains the picture of a British soldier and is entitled British soldier, as indicated at f. This card 25 is the disadvantage card of the deck and the player holding the same at the end of the game has its value, 2'. c, 25, deducted from his score and if he has made no points, he goes into the hole for that amount. The card 9 numbered 100 bears the picture it of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France and is so entitled, as indicated at i in Fig. 1. This card is the advantage card of the deck and is superior in value to all of the other cards of the deck. The remaining twenty-six cards j numbered consecutively from 74: to 99, each bear a picture of one of Napoleon Bonapartes marshals, as shown at 70, and is so entitled, as shown at Z,in Fig. 1. Each of these twenty-six cards also bears one of the letters of the alphabet, as indicated at m, and each one is superior to any of the cards numbered fro 1 to 73.

In playing the game, a rule may be made to the effect that each lettered card, will capture the following lettered card, if

played on the same trick, regardless of the numbers which the cards bear; as, for instance, card A hearing the number 74,- will capture card 13 bearing the number ii card B is played upon card A, likewise, card 13 will capture card C, card C will capture card 1), etc.,- regardless of the numbers which said cards bear. If desired, however, the game may be played without this rule, in which the numbers on the cards will alone control and determine their relative values.

The preferred manner of playing the game is as follows: The dealer, after shuffling the cards, deals to the left one at a time until the deck is exhausted. Any number of players may participate in the game. The player at the left of the dealer then leads his highest card and the other players play successively upon it, the highest card played winning the trick. The winner then leads his highest card for the second trick. The unlettered cards having high value have preference over those of lower value; the lettered cards have preference over the numbered cards and the card g has advantage over all of the others and captures everything. After all of the cards in the hand have been led or playechthe players total up the values of the cards taken by them and if one of them has a score of 500 he'wins the game. The player holding the disadvantage card 25 has that sum deducted from his score. If no player has a score of 500 the cards are again shuttled and dealt and the game thus continued until some one obtains the score of 500. The player leading must lead his highest card and if he fails to do so and is detected by any of the other players he is required to give such card to the 1 player catching him.

From the foregoing it will be seen that my invention provides a novel deck of cards which will afford much amusement and enthe pictures and names of the ofiicers of picture of a private soldier in the army of a 10 the army of such leader, said lettered cards having preference over the unlettered cards with the exception of the card bearing the highest number, the cards having the lower numbers or values bearing each a picture of a private soldier in the army and be longing to the nation'of such leader and being so entitled, except one, Which bears the difierent nation.

In testnnony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two wltnesses.

\VILLIAM TERRELL EDDINS;

\Vitnesses M. RWENBARK, C. BEVILL. 

